It seems many readers took this article too seriously. It isn't serious — if it were, it wouldn't benchmark connection establishment. As it is now, it establish

It seems many readers took this article too seriously. It isn't serious — if it were, it wouldn't benchmark connection establishment. As it is now, it establishes a new database connection for every request, which is wasteful. I guess it does prove the point that the more letters you drop off ACID, the more performance you can get.